A growing percentage of U.S. citizens engage in entrepreneurship.
Babson and Baruch Colleges issued a report last week that points to an exciting trend in the U.S. economy: The percentage of adults involved in startups in 2012 hit 13%–a record high since Babson began tracking entrepreneurship rates in 1999.
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Kickstarter founders Charles Adler, Perry Chen, and Yancey Strickler
Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website, has hit a major milestone. It finally passed over 100,000 campaigns, according to statistics released by the company. In the three years since it launched, Kickstarter has made otherwise nontraditional crowdfunding a legitimate form of project financing.
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Google blimp
Google plans on building huge wireless networks to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia using high-altitude balloons and blimps. The intend to finance, build and operate the wireless networks that will connect a billion people to the web.
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The technology-enabled business trends will not only be a boon for consumers but also stimulate growth.
McKinsey & Company described ten information technology three years ago that enabled business trends that were profoundly altering the business landscape. Since then, the pace of technology change, innovation, and business adoption has been stunning. Consider that the world’s stock of data is now doubling every 20 months; the number of Internet-connected devices has reached 12 billion; and payments by mobile phone are hurtling toward the $1 trillion mark.
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Where will the jobs be, and how can companies carve out a competitive advantage in the global economy?
Exactly what technologies and trends will change our lives are hard to predict. Few people understood just how powerful the Internet would be, dismantling entire industries and creating millions of jobs.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: In September 1989, GE Chairman Jack Welch flew to Bangalore, India for a breakfast meeting with an Indian delegation that included Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi. The purpose of his trip was to sell airplane engines and medical equipment to India, but the meeting took an interesting twist along the way.
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Employees at Intel, a semiconductor-chip-maker, recently devised a new chemistry process that reduced chemical waste by 900,000 gallons, saving $45 million annually. Another team developed a plan to reuse and optimize networking systems in offices, which cut energy costs by $22 million.
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81% of people in the surveys said that “power today is about influence rather than control.”
When people around the world were surveyed about the ideal modern leader, 64,000 people in 13 countries–from China to Canada–wished their leaders were slightly less polarizing and more collaborative.
Continue reading… “Future leaders will be flexible, selfless, and more collarborative: Study”
Travel can affect a company’s bottom line.
A new study conducted by Oxford Economics and commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association has found businesses that continued to send employees on the road during the recession were more profitable than those that cut back on business travel.
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Something as simple as tweaking the color of a button changes user behavior or endears people to your product.
Why is Facebook blue? The reason is simple, according to The New Yorker. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green color blind; blue is the color Mark can see the best.
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Rock Health predicted 2013 would be a record year for digital health.
According to some of the biggest names in health investing, it’s a great time for health startups to raise money. Digital health funding grew dramatically in 2012 and it is continuing to grow.
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YouTube
On the internet there are only a few things bigger than Facebook, but YouTube, owned by Google, is one of them, and today the world’s top online video service marked its eight year anniversary by revealing that it is now seeing more than 100 hours of video uploaded every minute.
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